Ars oratoria ; Ars epistolandi, suprascriptiones epistolarum ; et Ars memoratiua Jacobi publicij florentini
Publisher: Erhard Ratdolt
Published: 1490
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Oratory; Early works to 1800; Latin language; Rhetoric; Early works to 1500; Latin Letter writing; Mnemonics; Early works to 1850
Other titles: Ars epistolandi, suprascriptiones epistolarum.; Ars memorativa.
Work titles: Artes orandi epistolandi memorandi
Notes: Colophon (leaf i2v): Erhard[us] Ratdolt augustensis ingenio miro [et] arte [per]polita impressioni mirifice dedit .M.cccc.xc.xiij. kal[endas]. Februarij. Aug.

A reprint of Ratdolt's Venetian edition of 1485, with the ill. printed from the same woodblocks.

Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁴ (i4 blank).

Numerous woodcut ill., some full-page, of mnemonic figures and diagrams, including alphabet letters, a chessboard, and the tree of rhetoric. The ill. on h8r has a volvelle.

Woodcut printer's device (Weil, p. 34) on i3r, printed in red & black; white-on-black floriated and lombard initials.

Printed on sheets of "super-chancery"-size paper.

Hain-Copinger, 13547*.

Proctor, 1886.

Goff, P-1098.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 5033.

BM 15th cent., II, 384 (IA.6700).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ip01098000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 629.

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-1098

Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 13547*

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 13547

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M36428

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, volume 2, page 384 (IA. 6700)

Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, ip01098000
Table of contents: title: Oratorie artis epitoma (a2r-e5v); title: Ars scribendi ep[isto]las (e6r-g3r); title: Ars memori[a]e (g3v-i2v).